Pensioners at the rally in Trafalgar Square after last April’s ‘Defend the Welfare State’ march

Slashing Winter Fuel Payment is a death sentence!

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trade unions and charities yesterday slammed as a death sentence for millions of pensioners, government plans to slash the annual Winter Fuel Payment by...

Iran Pledges Reprisals Against Sanctions

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...

TORIES WANT MASSIVE CUTS – GENERAL STRIKE NOW! – urge Euston RMT pickets

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‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

25,000 Bank Jobs At Risk

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The Unite union yesterday warned that up to 25,000 banking jobs are at risk with the government’s plan to sell off the profitable parts...
The Wednesday picket outside Lewisham Hospital yesterday midday – determined to keep it open

Coalition cuts doctors and then turns away patients!

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THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

More Israeli war crimes

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HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the ongoing Israeli escalation against the captive Palestinian population in...
Junior doctors demonstrate in the lead-up to their second strike. Their fourth strike takes place this week – they will not accept imposition

Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition

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THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...

EU to throw 1.26 trillion euros at the banks

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EUROPEAN Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday launched the bank’s ‘expanded asset purchase programme’, to buy bonds from banks to try...

END TUBE PPP ‘SCAM’ – urges RMT secretary Bob Crow

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FAILING Tube privateer Metronet should get no more public money, and be ‘brought back in-house’ London Underground’s biggest union said yesterday. As the Public Private...

Hamas protecting aid convoys

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...
Junior doctors demonstrating in Westminster Square after the employers cancelled their consultation meeting

Full support for Junior Doctors!

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CHAIR of the British Medical Association Dr Mark Porter has declared the BMA’s full support for the junior doctors’ decision to ballot for industrial...

Reinstate The Strikes!

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THERE is no deal so reinstate the strikes, frustrated Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials said yesterday. This came as yet another day of talks...

MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat

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The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

Angry Aslef pickets reject four per cent pay offer!

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STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the...

‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...

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DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...

‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities

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THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

‘Staggering rate of evictions’

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HOMELESS charity Shelter has denounced the ‘staggering’ amount of families who are being forcibly evicted from their homes, the highest since records began. Figures released...
Postal workers marching in Wolverhampton against privatisation. Stoke postal workers are on strike against plans for them to travel to work in Wolverhampton – a 75 mile round trip

Stoke Postal Workers Won’t Cross Picket Lines

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Stoke-on-Trent Mail Centre delivery staff walked out on unofficial strike for the third time yesterday after being ordered by management to cross their processing...

BROWN PLANS FORCED LABOUR – condemns TUC call for £110 a week for apprentices

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‘WE’RE opposed to workfare, our position has not changed on that,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to speeches by Prime...

Barnsley Nurses To Strike

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GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...

NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis

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THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...
Teachers and junior doctors united in struggle marched through central London last month demanding ‘No privatisation of the NHS, No privatisation of education!’

Tory Forced Academies Plan Ditched

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THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...

Virgin-Ryanair Job Cuts

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The airlines industry was hit with a wave of job cuts yesterday. Virgin Atlantic announced 600 sackings. Ryanair announced cuts in its summer schedule at Dublin...
Marchers on a TUC demonstration against austerity demand jail for the bankers

Bank admits undercover EU exit probe

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THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

‘PROSECUTE THOSE INVOLVED IN LOOTING AND CORRUPTION!’ – SAFTU hails police raid on Guptas

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) yesterday welcomed ‘the long overdue recall of Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa’. The ANC...

3 YEARS WITHOUT BENEFIT –Labour supports coalition threat to unemployed

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Unemployed workers face being refused benefits for up to three years if they don’t take up job offers, or ‘community placements’ under a new...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month

76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...

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‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!

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STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...

Boycott EuroVision

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‘WITH THE Eurovision Song Contest taking place on Saturday, the year-long campaign to boycott the competition in Israel is ramping up,’ Zoe Lawlor from...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’

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The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...
Sacked printers march against Murdoch during their year-long battle to defend jobs and union rights in 1986-87

MURDOCH WITHDRAWS BSkyB BID!

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron announced a public inquiry into the News International hacking scandal yesterday, just before the Murdoch organisation announced that it was...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10

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A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

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THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

Banking Storm Ahead!

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The European debt crisis is a ‘key risk’ to the UK banking sector and banks should build up their cash reserves in response, the...

Corbyn for second referendum!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...
Fenland Foods workers picketing Marks & Spencer in the struggle to keep their jobs

BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead

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‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...
South West Trains ASLEF picket line at Waterloo station yesterday afternoon

ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo

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YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

‘We demand a pay rise’ – Nurses, midwives & NHS staff rise up against...

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OVER 500 angry NHS workers marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street on Wednesday evening to demand a 15 per cent pay rise. ‘Enough...

Industrial Action Call At The Bma

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A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...

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NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...

GATE GOURMET – 37 claims dismissed

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THE Reading Employment Tribunal yesterday reported that as a result of its May 18th hearing it had struck out and dismissed 37 claims for...
NUJ protest against the BSkyB takeover outside the Culture Ministry last year

Cameron hiding behind Hunt

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PRESSURE mounted on prime minister Cameron yesterday over his refusal to refer the actions of Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt to...